configure nagios with mysql

[Andreas Ericsson]

Markus Hackethal wrote:
> Hello list,
> i am just new to the list and got some trouble
> to install nagios 1.2 + mysql on redhat 9.0
> with mysql-3.23.58-1.9 ( devel also installed )

You need mysql-shared as well (at least for MySQL 4.x).
RH has a funny way of packaging stuff...

> I browsed through the ML but couldnt find
> anything that would help me.
> 
> I configured nagios with these options:
> 
>  ./configure --prefix=/var/www/nagios/ --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-grp=nagios --with-mysql-xdata \
>  --with-mysql-status --with-mysql-comments --with-mysql-extinfo --with-mysql-retention --with-mysql-downtime \
>  --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql/ --with-mysql-inc=/usr/include/mysql/
> 
> my ld.so.conf:
> 
> /usr/lib/mysql
> /usr/include/mysql
> 
> The problem is that the configure scripts always says lmysqlclient not installed.
> 
> <snap>
> checking for main in -lmysqlclient... (cached) no
> 
> 
> *** MySQL library could not be located... **************************
> 
> You chose to compile Nagios with MySQL support, but I was unable to
> locate the MySQL library on your system.  If the library is
> installed,  use the --with-mysql-lib and --with-mysql-inc arguments
> to specify the locations of the MySQL library and include files.
> </snap>
> 
> Well i read in ML that the script requires mysql.h
> [root at server3 SOURCES]# find /usr/include/mysql/ -name mysql.h
> /usr/include/mysql/mysql.h
> 
> my /usr/lib/mysql directory includes these files:
> [root at server3 mysql]# pwd
> /usr/lib/mysql
> [root at server3 mysql]# ls
> libdbug.a         libmysqlclient_r.a          libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
> libheap.a         libmysqlclient_r.so         libmystrings.a
> libmerge.a        libmysqlclient_r.so.10      libmysys.a
> libmyisam.a       libmysqlclient_r.so.10.0.0  libnisam.a
> libmyisammrg.a    libmysqlclient.so
> libmysqlclient.a  libmysqlclient.so.10
> 
> therfor i think that all requirements are available.
> 
> Maybe anyone can help me solving this problem.
> Or is there something that is missing?
> 
> Friendly regards,
> 
> Markus Hackethal 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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